Who are you people?

A few years ago I ate lunch with a very clever gentleman once a week. We contemplated the idea of education as ripples in a pond. How can ideas spread once the initial stone has been tossed into the water? Can those who learn teach others?

That simple idea led to the grander one of teacherless learning. The logical next step for the information age. Because with the world at your fingertips, a teacher whose only job is to impart information makes very little logical sense.

Sadly our paths diverged, but that year of conversations led me
directly to the experiment, which
after much trial and rather a lot of errors
resulted in the cards.

What does Angol, na? mean?

Bit of a story, that. 'Angol' means
'english' in Hungarian. 'Na' is an imperative of
sorts, indicating something similar to 'of
course' with overtones of 'doh'. But. Monty Python fans - like myself
and most Hungarians - are very familiar with
The Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch, in
which Cleese confounds a shopkeeper by
asking for tobacco, which his phrasebook
tells him is 'A légpárnás hajóm tele van
angolnákkal.' 'My
hovercraft is full of eels'.
'Eel', in
Hungarian, is 'angolna'.

The Team

Annie - Ideatrix in Chief, Teacher of
English

An erstwhile student of philosophy, I turned to teaching before I had
even left high school. Blame my teachers; Andover is truly
an amazing place to absorb the art of education. While I've
taught photography, music theory, and the amusingly named
"Culture" at University in the middle of nowhere, China,
language remains my first love. I've taught in the States,
Canada, China, and Hungary. Conversations with fellow educators
coupled with coming up on 20 years in the classroom gave
rise to this idea I cannot seem to shake; the unique
perspectives of both peers and my students challenge and
push me every day, and with any luck will continue to do so
for a very long time to come.

Changing minds since 1993.
The cards are the culmination of nearly a decade of
exloring the nature of language learning, both as a teacher
and a person who tends to show up in countries where she
doesn't speak the language. Yet.Read our story